Clarion 1959-01-15 Vol 35 No 08

Sno Daze Begins At Game Tonight;
Princess Will Reign Over Festivities
by Carolyn Nepstad
Reigning over the three day Sno Daze festi-vities
will be one of the four candidates for Sno
Princess. Tonight at the half-time coronation cere-mony
during the Bethel - Pillsbury basketball game
the .Sno Princess will be crowned.
Who will be the reigning Sno Princess ? Vying
for the crown are sophomores Carol Bausman and
Carol Young and freshmen Nancy Mattson and
Ellen Polk.
One of last year's candidates for Freshman
Sweetheart, Carol Bausman comes from Soudan,
Minn. She serves as vice-treasurer of the Bodien
dorm council. Elementary education is her major.
From Spring Valley, Cal., comes candidate
Carol Young. A registered nurse, Carol is com-pleting
studies toward her B.S. degree in public
health nursing. Her desire is to go to the mission
field.
Having graduated from Minnehaha Academy,
Nancy Mattson is continuing her education with
plans of elementary teaching. Bethel has offered
the opportunity to sing in the college choir and in
the girls' ensemble. A native Minnesotan, Nancy's
home is Minneapolis.
Often seen with her "uke" and known by her
characteristic laugh, Ellen Polk came to Bethel
from Waukegan, Ill. Sharing in the committee
work of the freshman class, debating, and report-ing
for the CLARION are among her many inter-ests.
To the fanfare of trumpets, the four candidates
will be escorted to the platform by the men's quar-tet
who will also honor them in song. Comprising
the musical foursome are Dick Abrahamson, Dick
Benert, Larry Jamison, and Denny Kolbrek. The
basketball captain, chosen weekly by the team, will
then have the honor of crowning the reigning
princess.
Master of Ceremonies Art Erickson will be
officiating. Chairman of the coronation committee
is Elaine Johnson, college junior.
The Sno Princess and her maidens will be
guests of honor at the Sno Daze mixer in Edgren
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Sno Daze princess candidates Carol Bausman, Nancy
Mattson, Carol Young, and Ellen Polk get set for
a downhill "schuss" on the old tobaggon. There is
some speculation that the girls are getting set for
a run on the photographer for making them sit
around in the cold while he readies the camera to
take their picture.
residence following the game. During refreshments
the "Happiness Boys" and a girls' ensemble under
the direction of Sylvia Jackson will be offering
a variety of musical entertainment. Co-chairmen
of the mixer program are Elloa Leaning and Carl
Nelson.
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Class strife (not labor vs. management, but interclass competition) will once again be pronounced when
frosh and senior, soph and junior, clash during Sno Daze hockey competition. The protagonists above, Dick
Westby and Al Penner, as well as Mr. Swan Engwall, psychologist turned referee, will all be in action
come Saturday afternoon. That guy way off to the side? That's Larry Nelson; he swallowed the puck; he's
all right though; he'll be able to be there too.
Sno Daze Banquet: the CLARION Formal Features
Volume XXXV—No. 8
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, January 15, 1959 Musical Variety
by Ellen Polk
Candlelight and formal dress
will set the stage for the Sno
Daze banquet which will be held
Friday night at 8 o'clock in the
Casino room of the St. Paul hotel.
After a roast beef dinner, the
formal-tuxedo clad couples will be
entertained by a musical program.
Master of Ceremonies will be Mel
Jass, •moderator of the television
program "Open House."
James Murray, widely acclaimed
baritone who recently toured Eur-ope
with the Porgy and Bess com-pany,
will sing several selections.
The Atomic Bums, a barber shop
quartet which appeared in a pro-
Biology Presents--
3 Lecturers
Three student lectures in bio-logy
have been scheduled on Mon-day,
Jan. 19, at 7 p.m., and Thurs-day,
Jan. 22, at 8:30 p.m. and
9:15 p.m., in the student lounge.
These lectures are projects of
the biology seminar to bring in-formation
on topics of scientific
importance to interested students.
Dr. Anderson, chairman of the
Department of Biological Science,
paralleled them to recitals given
by the music department.
Monday Jim Jackson will speak
on "Smoking and Lung Cancer."
At the first lecture Thursday Janet
Lindquist will speak on "Feedback
Mechanisms in Biology." Wayne
Anderson will speak an "Origin
of Life" at the second session.
All interested may attend these
one-half hour lectures. There will
be a 15 minute question period
following each lecture.
gram at Northrop auditorium for
the "Preservation of Barber Shop
Quartets in America," will sing
and present their special comedy
routine.
Pianist Ronn Veenker, Bethel
senior, will play his arangement
of "Sleigh Ride." The Lee Lewis
Octette, directed by Lee Lewis
and composed of selected Bethel
voices, will make their debut. Stu-dents
singing in the octette will
be: Dick Abrahamson, Dick Ben-ert,
Marge Elven, Carol Hurd,
Sylvia Jackson, Larry Jamison,
Judy Koepple, Denny Kolbrek, and
June McGillivray.
Banquet tickets will be sold in
the student lounge until 3:30 this
afternoon. Arrangements may be
made to get tickets now and pay
for them after the banquet. These
tickets will be returned so they
can be used as admittance to the
Saturday night variety show.
After the banquet, punch will
be ,served in the lounges of Bodien
and Edgren residences. Mrs.
Christensen and Mrs. Moberg,
house mothers, will be hostesses.
All girls will have one o'clock
lutes tomorrow night.
The social council is attempting
to establish a tradition in making
the Sno Daze banquet the only
truly formal event of the year.
Everything has been planned
with the students' finances in view.
Bethel students have been offered
special price reductions by Skeff-ington's,
1602 University avenue,
where tuxedos can be rented for
$5, and by Hermes Flower and
Gift shop, 1709 North Snelling
avenue, where corsages will cost
$1.50.
Dalton Reports Traysliding, Hockey .. .
On 73rd Annual
AHA Assembly
• • . Relays, Log Sawing
Sports Scheduled Saturday At Como
This account was written by Roy
C. Dalton, associate professor of
history, who attended the annual
meeting of the AHA. A further
report will be made by him to the
history and political science group
at Bethel at a meeting tentatively
scheduled for Feb. 12—ed.
More than 2000 historians from
throughout the United States at-tended
the three-day convention of
the American Historical Associa-tion,
held at the Mayflower hotel
in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 28-
30. By charter definition the AHA
is a body "for the promotion of
historical studies, the collection
and preservation of historical
manuscripts, and for kindred pur-poses
in the interests of American
history and of history in America."
At the annual meeting, of which
this was the seventy-third, numer-ous
papers were read and discuss-ed
at morning, luncheon, after-noon,
and dinner sessions. As a
number of papers are being read
and discussed in simultaneous ses-sions
it is impossible for any one
delegate to attend more than a
small percentage of the sessions,
generally chosen according to his
own interests and field of special-ization.
Two of the papers were particu-larly
suggestive for the history
and political science faculty and
students of Bethel college. At a
joint session with The Conference
on Slavic and East European His-tory,
John M. Thompson, of the
Social Science research council,
stressed the need for improved
teaching of Russian history and
understanding of the entire non-
Dalton
(continued on p. 3)
by Pam Everburg
Only two more days until Sat-urday
and I can hardly wait! You
too ? Why the puzzled look on a
few faces ? You don't know what's
going on?
Here's the scoop. At 9 o'clock
sharp be out in the center of cam-pus
for a dog sled race. Where
did we get the dogs, you're won-dering?
Well, we . . . Maybe I
should make you wait and see,
but be there or you'll hate your-self.
Especially when all the
screaming will wake you up any-way.
From the dog sled race we'll
pile into cars or go by ankle ex-press
to Como Lake for the skat-ing
competition. Besides the speed
races and the relay races there
will be figure skating and even
more.
Alt 10:30 we'll migrate to Como
Hill for Bethel's favorite sport-traysliding!
Girls, I feel compelled
to warn you that if you don't
want to disappoint that he-man
of yours, you better be sure to be
there. He is going to have a
chance to show off his strength
in a log sawing contest.
A quick warm lunch back at
school is the next thing on the
agenda. 'Phis is to thaw out and
give added strength for the big
afternoon of hockey. Four teams
made up of members from the
four classes will compete. Two
judges will make things fair and
exciting, One will be Dick Westby,
a seminary student and an excel-lent
skater with a background in
hockey. (His two brothers are
presently playing hockey for the
U.S. Nationals against the Rus-sians.)
Our other referee is no
stranger to hockey either. How-ever,
it has been nearly 40 years
since he has had on a pair of
skates. This is professor Swan
Engwall. But he admits that he
can be easily swayed by the emo-tions
of the players.
The surprise event of the day
will be a game in which a Bethel
"all star" team will play against
a St. Paul team.
Remember—all the competition
is on a class basis. Come and sup-port
yours and be sure to enter
the events you like best.
A trophy will be awarded the
winning class at the Saturday
night variety show.
Two Warren Miller ski movies
will be shown.
"Moonlight in Vermont," "Suzy
Snowflake," "Frosty the Snow-man,"
and "It's a Marshmallow
World" will be sung by a trio—
Bev Harrison, Rene Leafblad, and
June McGillivray. The Lee Lewis
Octette will also sing.
Admission will be by banquet
ticket or 50 cents per person.
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Thursday
8 p.m.—basketball game
half-time coronation
10 p.m.—mixer at Edgren
Friday
8 p.m.—formal banquet
Saturday
9 a.m.—dog sled race
class competition at
Como
1:30 p.m.—hockey
p.m.—Sno Daze variety
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CAROL CHRISTENSEN, editor
BOB JOHNSON, editor
Departmental editors: Alice
Huffman, Lois Bradshaw,
Pam Everburg, Charlie El-ven.
MAUREEN BRONSTEIN,
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ROY DALTON, Ph.D., adviser
Page 2 the CLARION Thursday, January 15, 1959
Call To Contemplation
Silence Held To Be Key
by Marvin W. Anderson
Seminary Senior
In the center of sound, silence. In the babble of voices, the Voice,
crying in the Wilderness ... Beyond all words, and transcending speech,
the Word of God would speak, if we shall listen.
The cryptic message of T. S. Eliot sears our conscience as we seek
for God's Word:
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world;
And the light shone in darkness and
Against the word the unstilted world still whirled
About the centre of the silent Word.
0 my people, what have I done to thee.
Where shall the word be found, where will the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence ...
He who was greatest of those born of women became a Voice, cry-ing
in the silent wilderness. This voice compels us to silence and
solitude, neglected facets of our spiritual heritage.
Silence is disturbing, for it unmasks the strangers that we are
in the world of sound. It mirrors our real selves and invades the realm
of thought. "Be still and know that I am God." No knowledge without
silence, and no God without calm. Apropos in an age of cacaphony and
speed is the still, small voice of the Word of God.
Silence brings solitude. The modern penchant for gregarity: we who
cannot sup in solitude, need the calm and assurance of the desert. "In
Eternity, you will look in vain for the crowd." Thoughts in solitude
again will gain access to the presence of God.
Contemplation of God, stemming from communion with the silent
Word, springs from a silent soul in an attitude of solitude before
Christ and the crisis of His cross.
No place of grace for those who avoid the face
No time to rejoice for those who walk among the noise
and deny the voice.
TO -61)quart Corner
Abp Common jobrt
The Rook (maleficent obsession)
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary
Supping on a bowl of puree since my lobes were blinking bleary;
As I studied, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping
'Companied by murmured yapping there outside my chamber door.
Finals though my mind enwrapping I played naughty feigning napping.
Yet continued still the tapping and increased into a rapping
So that soon the sound slammed slapping, slipping through my chamberdoor;
And I hoped some kind kidnapping would remove the slipping slapping
That disturbed my feigned sly sleeping at the desk this side the door.
Only this and nothing more.
But the noise continued stronger. I could stand it then no longer
When the rapping turned to ripping and the yapping to a roar.
I arose and in a hurry flew to pacify the flurry
And I wondered what I'd whisper when I opened wide the door —
"Now you know that I am napping so please bother me no more."
Here I opened wide the portal and performed the brief recital
That I'd muttered tersely in my mind the moment just before.
But in spite of my appealing I began to find the feeling
Of rejection soon concealing when I found myself a-reeling
To the bed upon the floor;
For the others all around us wafted worries with a snore
And they needed one more person to make up a hand of four.
Fretful fancies of the finals I attempted to ignore
As the dealer did the dealing and the winners won with squealing
As I pouted my appealing then appealed at last no more.
Round the ghastly game we gathered from that moment until four
As we played ourselves to sleeping from that moment until four
Only "Rook" and nothing more.
Quoth we later, "Nevermore."
Safety Valve:
Faculty Member Dissents
To the Editor:
It is my understanding that it
is a signal honor to be chosen
editor of the CLARION. It is
obvious that with this honor also
goes the privilege and responsi-bility
of making your paper a
worthwhile contribution to a "cam-pus
of Christian scholarship."
I fail to see such value in such
articles as the last "Square Cor-ner"
in Which an attempt is made
by a pseudo-sophisticate to expose
the entire student body to a vi-carious
experience of attending a
"rock and roll" session. If "Com-mon
John" feels the need to so
slum and waste his God-given time
on such worthless pursuits, this is
his affair, but I see no reason
for exposing all to it!
Having been graciously saved
from years wasted in this type of
life, I feel qualified to speak out
against such activities. Frankly,
to read such flippant and glib
gibberish in our paper nauseates
me. Must we be like the world in
all things ? God's Word advises to
"flee youthful lusts!"
In the name of Christian dec-ency
I pray that in the future
you may feel led to consign such
articles to their deserved place—
the trash can!
Julius Whitinger
Writer
Replies
In the "Square Corner" article
mentioned in the above letter,
criticism was leveled on the directly
observable evidence that I had
attended a "rock and roll session."
Perhaps it was because I did not
attack dancing in true crusading
fashion, exposing all its evils, that
it was thought that I approved
of the activity. This was not nec-essarily
so. Actually I had found
the scene rather amusing and
tried to convey this feeling, at the
same time trying to be reasonably
objective.
While the "Square Corner" pro-duces
- no works of literary note,
it is not designed to nauseate. The
purpose of the "Corner" for the
most part is to inform the stu-dent
body of inexpensive cultural
opportunities in the Twin City
area. KSTP-TV was one in the
series. Perhaps it was unfortunate
that the only available live tele-cast
on Friday afternoon was "HI-FIve
Time."
Let me conclude by saying that
I don't believe salvation alone, any
more than wealth or social stand-ing,
makes anyone a qualified
critic of every pothole on the
prairie.
There has to be some background
knowledge before criticism, and
in this case it would appear that
previous articles would furnish the
information.
"Common John"
Social
Situation
Appalling
Dear Editors:
I would like to state my business
as briefly, honestly, and dogmati-cally
as possible.
I am a member of the majority
group uninvited to the Sno Daze
activities. It has been suggested
by female friends of mine and
confirmed by members of the male
populus that the specific reason
for the sparse attendance to this
affair is simply that guys in gen-eral
are not interested in spend-ing
an outrageous sum (minimum
$15) on someone who is merely a
"date."
Therefore, it seems to me that
the root of the trouble originates
in the beginning of the year at
the social events transpiring be-fore
Sno Daze. It is my sincere
(and dogmatic) belief that more
events on campus ought to be par-ticularly
designated as "date af-fairs."
Perhaps we could add more
mixers and box-socials.
Each week we have what is
called Dress-Up for dinner which
is usually followed by a social or
cultural event. I believe that many,
if not all, of these events ought
to be labeled and strictly enforced
as "Dates Only!"
Perhaps at first glance this ap-pears
to be social suicide for many
girls, and yet I feel convinced that
if this idea were given time it
would be found quite profitable.
It seems very feasible to me that
a boy would be willing to take a
girl to a campus event, the total
financial burden of such an event
being no more than a quarter for
a sundae.
I believe, in short time, guys
would get adjusted to the idea and
dating would become an enjoyable
and natural experience at Bethel
(which I think we all secretly de-sire).
I could go on to elucidate my
convictions concerning a Chris-tian's
responsibility to a well-ad-justed
social life, but I will leave
that for hen-sessions in the coffee
shop.
Sincerely,
Terry Benz
rally 'round the fragment
i would like to be in a clique,
but my car isn't large enough
the remainder of nineteen hun-dred
and fifty nine will see the
average male student change his
socks three hundred and fifty
times
engineering, science, and technology
(to be read in sacrosanct tones)
hollowly, hallowedly, yet humorous ly
as it were, whimsically
sort of tongue-in-cheek
to say nothing of
satire
two went to college:
just young boys
the only boys from the village
ever to go to college
they went with great
expectations and zealously applied themselves to
the task of education
but a perplexing problem arose:
they had to decide on a major
the discussion was heated
however one finally seemed committed
but the other one, the
practical student
said: what good is it?
said : what can you use it for?
said : what can you do with it?
said : it's not utilitarian
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and conversely he said : if it doesn't work
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Bethel Choir
Practises On
City Churches
Forty-two voices of the Bethel
college choir will be presenting
concerts in area churches in the
coming months.
Presently the choir, under the
direction of C. Howard Smith, is
working on selections to be used
Jan. 25 at Edgewater Baptist in
Minneapolis and Feb. 8 at Payne
Avenue Baptist in St. Paul.
These area concerts will provide
valuable experience for the group
before they take their spring tour,
said Mr. Smith. This year the choir
plans to visit the Columbia con-ference,
singing in the churches
along the west coast from Port-land,
Ore., to Vancouver, B. C.
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Some come bearded: The
bearded ones on this page really
aren't refugees from Fidel Cas-tro's
victorious 26th of July revo-lutionary
force. Actually, they are
only male Bethel college students
getting their growths in shape
for happy Sno Daze time.
Bethel Debaters
Tie For Honors
At Tournament
Bethel debaters tied with • Augu-stana
college for top honors at
the tournament Dec. 13. Fred
Borgen and Bob Hames ended
the day with four wins and no
losses. They combined with Joel
Stolte and Doug Oelke to give
Bethel a six to eight record.
Last Saturday the fourth in a
series of Twin City league tourna-ments
was held at Concordia Jun-ior
college. The league winners
will be announced at the end of
the series.
Future tournaments are sched-uled
for Jan. 17 at River Falls,
Wis., and Jan. 29-31 at Sioux
Falls, S. D.
A young people's meeting fea-turing
debaters is being planned
at the Central Baptist church in
Sioux Falls.
(continued from page 1)
Western world. Thompson suggest-ed:
That every graduate history de-partment
in the United States
offer courses in Russian history
taught by a trained specialist.
That every graduate student
majoring in modern European his-tory
be required to take some
work in the history of Russia and
Eastern Europe.
That every college history de-partment
should have one man
with sufficient training to teach
a good survey of Russian history.
That every bachelor of arts col-lege
graduate should be acquaint-ed
in some fashion with the prob-lems
and issues affecting Russian
and Soviet development.
Proper Student Training
Thompson stressed the need for
educators in the United States
to consider searchingly and in good
conscience how well they are pre-paring
their students for respon-sible
citizenship in the world of
1980. He emphasized that this
would be a world in which Russia,
China, and all of Asia and Africa
would be playing prominent roles
daily affecting the vital interests
of the United States.
To increase the number of tea-chers
qualified to impart some un-derstanding
of Russia to American
students, Thompson suggested:
Establishment of a fellowship
program for faculty members who
have not had an opportunity to
undertake specialized study of
Russia.
A determined effort by admini-strators
and history department
Rev. Lester Kim, pastor of the
Grand Avenue Christian and Mis-sionary
Alliance church in Minne-chairmen
to appoint teachers who
have a double competence — in
Russian, as well as in Western
European, American, or some other
history.
A Northwestern university his-torian,
L. S. Stavrianos, in his
paper on "World History and the
Teacher," said that the teaching
of world history today in the
United States is in a troubled
state at all levels, from the high
school to the graduate school.
Stavrianos said the basic reason
for this troubled state is the at-tempt
to teach such courses and
to write world history textbooks
by starting with Europe and add-ing
materials on Africa, South
Asia, and the Far and Middle
East whenever Europe impinged
on these regions. This procedure
has proved inadequate for two rea-sons:
The added materials have made
both the courses and the text-books
pedagogically unmanage-able.
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They have produced a "hybrid
which perhaps may be properly
defined as 'Europe and Its World
Relationships,' but which d'efin-
Hely is not world history."
What Is Our Objective?
To cope with this situation it is
necessary first to "differentiate
definitely and unequivocally be-tween
European history and world
history," Stavrianos said. If world
history is the objective, then
courses and textbooks must be
organized clearly and consistently
on a global basis.
"The second World War acceler-ated
the awakening of colonial
apolis, will be the speaker at World
Missions Fellowship on Thursday,
Jan. 22. This program, planned by
the Missions Fellowship of St.
Paul Bible college, will be held at
7 p.m. in the Bethel college chapel.
A former missionary to Indo-nesia,
Rev. Kim did pioneer work
in the jungles of Borneo. Before
he returned to this country he was
dean of a Bible school in Makas-sar
where about 90 students stud-ied.
A mixed trio will supply music
for the meeting.
peoples, with the result that Cairo,
Delhi, and Peking today are
crowding Washington, London, and
Paris in the daily headlines,"
Stavrianos declared. Epochal tech-nological
advances that have made
all neighbors have caused many to
question whether the traditional
Western Civilization course, by it-self,
is adequately preparing stu-dents
for the one world in which
they are destined to live.
It was the opinion of Stavrianos
that advanced undergraduate and
graduate courses should concen-trate
on limited phases of world
history, while freshman college
and high school courses should be
comprehensive in scope.
New Approach Outlined
William H. McNeill, of the Uni-versity
of Chicago, who appeared
on the panel with Stavrianos, said
that the question of how "our
common view of world history
should be revised cannot be an-swered
exactly until a number of
scholars have made the attempt"-
He thought that a promising ap-proach
would be to focus atten-tion
upon major centers of social
and cultural innovations in any
given epoch and study how other
societies reacted to the novelties
introduced at such centers.
A delightful experience for those
attending the convention was the
address of Walter Prescott Webb,
out-going president of the Assoc-iation.
Among the many other
humorous things he had to say in
his address, "History as a High
Adventure," Webb told how, in
looking around for something to
talk about at the annual banquet,
he had examined the published
speeches of his AHA presidential
predecessors. Judging from these,
he noted, one must conclude that
historians are "deadly serious"
and that the presidents "had much
learning, some wisdom and no fun
at all."
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Band Elects New Officers;
Director Aids Expansion
About 50 students are members evening at 6:30 in the college
of the Bethel band this year. The chapel.
band is directed by Julius Whit-inger,
instructor in music and
formerly director of the U.S. Navy
band.
Larry Sewell, sophomore, was
recently elected band president.
Vice president of the organization
is Loreen Leafblad, and Janice
Danielson is secretary - treasurer.
Other members of the band council
include Jan Lindquist, Morris An-derson,
John A. Anderson, and Bob
Ricker.
This year a uniform fund has
been started and awards will be
given for two years of faithful
service in the band. These awards
will be either a band key or a band
letter.
Mr. Whitinger hopes to form an
active band and feels Bethel has
possibilities of supporting a good
college band. He also encourages
all interested students to join the
band.
Practices are held each Tuesday
DALTON: Thompson Says: Teach About Russia
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Two smiling snowomen try their
hand at a great sport, traying.
Page 4 the CLARION Thursday, January 15, 1959
Who, Why, And How?
Intramurals Evaluated
Intramural athletics have long
been accepted as an important
part of the total college program.
Students and administration rea-lize
the value of the team exper-ience.
Many students, those who
lack the time to participate and
those not sufficiently adept at
athletics for intercollegiate com-petition
never experience team
activity.
Intramural athletics provides for
these students an opportunity to
be a team member as well as giv-ing
them some physical activity
which is held to be important to
living. Physical education courses
are required for only two years at
college, and these for only two
hours weekly. Outside of this re-quired
activity large numbers of
students confine themselves ex-clusively
to other pursuits.
The importance of intramural
athletics is further demonstrated
by the fact that such a group as
North Central association takes
the intramural program into con-sideration
when determining whe-ther
or not a school deserves its
seal of approval.
In fact, the concern of the
North Central group is one rea-son
which makes the intramural
question important as Bethel col-lege
now seeks regional accredi-tation.
Are intra•urals sufficiently
prominent and successful at Bethel
college? Does the success of our
program compare with that of
other schools of our size, origin,
and environment (if such exist) ?
Are students interested in the
program?
The men's schedule provides
competition in flag football, vol-leyball,
basketball, badminton,
handball, ping pong, softball, and
tennis.
A -variety of sports as men-tioned
above would apparently in-terest
nearly all students. Such
a comprehensive and interesting
program seems to be just the
component to combine with our
academic, religious, and social
phases to provide a balanced col-lege
life. But the "well-rounded,"
average Bethel student doesn't
appear to be very attracted.
For example, most men's team
captains consider themselves for-tunate
to have six of their team
members present to play volley-ball,
yet each of the eight men's
teams have nearly 40 members.
The men's schedule is posted on
the fieldhouse bulletin board, an-nouncements
are made in physical
education classes, and team cap-tains
leave notes in mail boxes,
but very little response occurs.
The same handful of men are pre-sent.
This same handful of men
will be present for the spring
sports also.
A similar situation exists in the
women's program, but it might be
partly explained by the fact that
Mrs. Lundin wasn't appointed sup-ervisor
of women's activities un-
Spitiof .2d-ex pah%
Bapial Cluacit
Highway 10 and 65
Morning worship 8:30 and 11 a.m.
Sunday school 9:45 a.m.
CYF 6 p.m.
Evening service 7 p.m.
Prayer meeting Wed., 7:45 p.m.
Stanley Starr
pastor
Howie Rekstad
director of music
Bob Frykholm
director of christian ed.
til the middle of November. To
some degree it is imaginable that
female students had developed a
schedule for studies, social life,
etc., which did not leave time for
an intramural athletic program
tardily introduced after their 24
hours per day had been filled, but
it would seem likely that more
than the handful would consider
it important to take time out and
be physically and competitively
stimulated through athletics.
The goal of the intramural pro-gram
is, of course, the physical
fitness of every student, which will
not be achieved without 100 per
cent participation. This will prob-ably
never be realized, but pro-gress
would certainly be encourag-ing.
Perhaps Bethel students are too
busy elsewhere. Perhaps physical
activity is not important enough
to the "well-rounded" Bethel stu-dent
for him to allow it to take
precedent over other activities,
without, as well as within, the
curriculum. Perhaps activities open
to Bethel Students are too num-erous.
At any rate, the number of
students participating at present
in intramural athletics hardly jus-tifies
reserving two evenings a
week on the official school calen-dar.
C. W.
by Don Westerhoff
Tuesday Bethel handed the
Northwestern Eagles a ten point
defeat, leaving the Royals unde-feated
in the conference and in
the number one slot.
Although Bethel led the Eagles
all the way it was still a close
game with some exciting mom-ents.
At half-time the Royals led
2925; the game ended 6858.
Keith King and Wayne Kindall
dominated the rebounding as well
as the scoring column, getting 18
and 17 rebounds respectively. John
Peterson came off the bench in
Three Loop
Foes Invade
Bethel Soon
by Dave Hagfeldt
Bethel, after sweeping its first
three conference tilts, faces four
conference games in a row.
The Pillsbury cellar dwellers,
who were outscored 91 - 50 by
Northwestern, Minn., will face the
league leading Royals here tonight.
,Coach Healy commented that
the next two games with North-land
and Milton should be a fair
indication of the outcome of the
league race. At Northland the
Royals will face several returning
lettermen on a team that has won
two of its first four non-conference
games. Bethel and Northland split
two games last year, each winning
on its home court. Milton Who
edged out the Royals for the title
last year will invade Bethel Jan.
23 in what should prove to be a
thriller.
Northwestern, Wis., will bring
two men who are in the top 10
scorers in the conference. Recently
improved scoring of Wayne Kin-dall,
who is third in the scoring
race with 23 points per game, and
the steady rebounding of Truman
Turnquist, who is averaging 21
points, may be deciding factors in
these contests.
the second half to show his ability
by getting seven rebounds and
making seven straight free
throws. He also had a _hand in
breaking up several Eagle plays.
iSpectatork= at the game were en-tertained
at half-time by Sergeant
Herb Schlossberg and his control
drill team and a musical drama
put on by some Northwestern rep-resentatives.
Over Christmas vacation the
Royal five defeated two confer-ence
foes, Lakeland and Milwaukee
Tech, thus giving them three tri-umphs
in the Badger-Gopher con-ference.
az Chuck-Whole
All Day Sat.- Hudson Here
Snow Events With Hockey
by C. N. Elven
IT IS QUESTIONABLE YOU KNOW. Bethel's second to one cam-pus,
Como park, will be cluttered (it's advertised that way) with our
lovely little ( ?) coeds swirling about with Joe hero beside them.
AND THEN THERE'S THIS THREATENING PROBLEM. Juniors
have a reputation at stake, that
being their dominance in sports
events and having claim to the
Sno trophy since it was inaugur-ated
two years ago. Can they do
it again?
IT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR.
Now take traying for instance.
The girls are credited with the
longest trip in Como park—down
hill. Priscilla Sension won this
event last year and look at the
prize she got—Don.
We could be without IT you
know, we have been for the past
two years.
Yo-Ho-Ho; 16 Men On • • •
Fanatics, they're all around us. Did you know that there are
people who attend our institution that enjoy being struck by a mis-guided
missile traveling at 80 to 100 miles an hour. This is fact.
I sat down with a group of these fanatics to discuss and learn
a few rudiments of the now royal sport of hockey. After discovering
the difference between a goalie and a wingman, I tried to probe into
the future of hockey here.
As I understand it, Bethel college now has approximately 17
fanatics-116 hockey players and Hudson, who has been on skates only
twice—comprising the roster for the hockey team.
Seminarian Dick Westby has consented to be a player coach. He
is trying to work his boys into some semblance of organization.
Comprising the first two lines are Westby, Gordh, L. Nelson, Mil-bery,
A. Penner, and Benent while McNaughton, M. Penner, Martinson,
and Moberg cinch the defensive positions. Dick Resch is goalie.
In the past few years various students have attempted to organize
a hockey team without too much success. But this year could be dif-ferent.
This is made significant by the number of players out thus
far and that we have a coach at our disposal.
Finances are a basic problem. At present our Athletic Department
has been most generous in their encouragement verbally, but the pur-chasing
power of words is small. The department has let the men use
jerseys and a few pads for which the stick men are grateful.
In order for the boys to be set up in league style, there are several
things which are necessary. Here are a few: wooden sticks, $3, or
fiberglass sticks, $4.75; goalie pads, $40; gloves, $16; skates, $50 - $60;
pads, $11; jerseys, $6; breezers, $12; to say nothing of boards which
run as high as $1,200. And our Athletic Department doesn't at present
have this kind of money. Perhaps if you know of a rich, ah—you know
what I mean.
The Needle
Bethel has finally come up with some scoring punch with Kindall,
Turnquist, and King all averaging around '20 points in the last three
games . . . Sport cars have finally arrived: the little red Porsche belong-ing
to Roger Purcell, the blue (gray) Ford to Art Erickson ...No won-der
the Russians are beating the U.S. Nationals—the Russian hockey
team eats steak for breakfast and drinks three quarts of milk a day
... Wally Pete says the faculty doesn't have a chance at the gym—a
girls' basketball practice is upsetting his badminton schedule ... A
new Miss Supertest is being built for another crack at the World
Hydro championship—the Harmsworth Trophy.
Third Badger-Gopher Win;
Traditional Rivals Beaten

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Sno Daze Begins At Game Tonight;
Princess Will Reign Over Festivities
by Carolyn Nepstad
Reigning over the three day Sno Daze festi-vities
will be one of the four candidates for Sno
Princess. Tonight at the half-time coronation cere-mony
during the Bethel - Pillsbury basketball game
the .Sno Princess will be crowned.
Who will be the reigning Sno Princess ? Vying
for the crown are sophomores Carol Bausman and
Carol Young and freshmen Nancy Mattson and
Ellen Polk.
One of last year's candidates for Freshman
Sweetheart, Carol Bausman comes from Soudan,
Minn. She serves as vice-treasurer of the Bodien
dorm council. Elementary education is her major.
From Spring Valley, Cal., comes candidate
Carol Young. A registered nurse, Carol is com-pleting
studies toward her B.S. degree in public
health nursing. Her desire is to go to the mission
field.
Having graduated from Minnehaha Academy,
Nancy Mattson is continuing her education with
plans of elementary teaching. Bethel has offered
the opportunity to sing in the college choir and in
the girls' ensemble. A native Minnesotan, Nancy's
home is Minneapolis.
Often seen with her "uke" and known by her
characteristic laugh, Ellen Polk came to Bethel
from Waukegan, Ill. Sharing in the committee
work of the freshman class, debating, and report-ing
for the CLARION are among her many inter-ests.
To the fanfare of trumpets, the four candidates
will be escorted to the platform by the men's quar-tet
who will also honor them in song. Comprising
the musical foursome are Dick Abrahamson, Dick
Benert, Larry Jamison, and Denny Kolbrek. The
basketball captain, chosen weekly by the team, will
then have the honor of crowning the reigning
princess.
Master of Ceremonies Art Erickson will be
officiating. Chairman of the coronation committee
is Elaine Johnson, college junior.
The Sno Princess and her maidens will be
guests of honor at the Sno Daze mixer in Edgren
4a/Afg,g.x.
Sno Daze princess candidates Carol Bausman, Nancy
Mattson, Carol Young, and Ellen Polk get set for
a downhill "schuss" on the old tobaggon. There is
some speculation that the girls are getting set for
a run on the photographer for making them sit
around in the cold while he readies the camera to
take their picture.
residence following the game. During refreshments
the "Happiness Boys" and a girls' ensemble under
the direction of Sylvia Jackson will be offering
a variety of musical entertainment. Co-chairmen
of the mixer program are Elloa Leaning and Carl
Nelson.
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Class strife (not labor vs. management, but interclass competition) will once again be pronounced when
frosh and senior, soph and junior, clash during Sno Daze hockey competition. The protagonists above, Dick
Westby and Al Penner, as well as Mr. Swan Engwall, psychologist turned referee, will all be in action
come Saturday afternoon. That guy way off to the side? That's Larry Nelson; he swallowed the puck; he's
all right though; he'll be able to be there too.
Sno Daze Banquet: the CLARION Formal Features
Volume XXXV—No. 8
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, January 15, 1959 Musical Variety
by Ellen Polk
Candlelight and formal dress
will set the stage for the Sno
Daze banquet which will be held
Friday night at 8 o'clock in the
Casino room of the St. Paul hotel.
After a roast beef dinner, the
formal-tuxedo clad couples will be
entertained by a musical program.
Master of Ceremonies will be Mel
Jass, •moderator of the television
program "Open House."
James Murray, widely acclaimed
baritone who recently toured Eur-ope
with the Porgy and Bess com-pany,
will sing several selections.
The Atomic Bums, a barber shop
quartet which appeared in a pro-
Biology Presents--
3 Lecturers
Three student lectures in bio-logy
have been scheduled on Mon-day,
Jan. 19, at 7 p.m., and Thurs-day,
Jan. 22, at 8:30 p.m. and
9:15 p.m., in the student lounge.
These lectures are projects of
the biology seminar to bring in-formation
on topics of scientific
importance to interested students.
Dr. Anderson, chairman of the
Department of Biological Science,
paralleled them to recitals given
by the music department.
Monday Jim Jackson will speak
on "Smoking and Lung Cancer."
At the first lecture Thursday Janet
Lindquist will speak on "Feedback
Mechanisms in Biology." Wayne
Anderson will speak an "Origin
of Life" at the second session.
All interested may attend these
one-half hour lectures. There will
be a 15 minute question period
following each lecture.
gram at Northrop auditorium for
the "Preservation of Barber Shop
Quartets in America," will sing
and present their special comedy
routine.
Pianist Ronn Veenker, Bethel
senior, will play his arangement
of "Sleigh Ride." The Lee Lewis
Octette, directed by Lee Lewis
and composed of selected Bethel
voices, will make their debut. Stu-dents
singing in the octette will
be: Dick Abrahamson, Dick Ben-ert,
Marge Elven, Carol Hurd,
Sylvia Jackson, Larry Jamison,
Judy Koepple, Denny Kolbrek, and
June McGillivray.
Banquet tickets will be sold in
the student lounge until 3:30 this
afternoon. Arrangements may be
made to get tickets now and pay
for them after the banquet. These
tickets will be returned so they
can be used as admittance to the
Saturday night variety show.
After the banquet, punch will
be ,served in the lounges of Bodien
and Edgren residences. Mrs.
Christensen and Mrs. Moberg,
house mothers, will be hostesses.
All girls will have one o'clock
lutes tomorrow night.
The social council is attempting
to establish a tradition in making
the Sno Daze banquet the only
truly formal event of the year.
Everything has been planned
with the students' finances in view.
Bethel students have been offered
special price reductions by Skeff-ington's,
1602 University avenue,
where tuxedos can be rented for
$5, and by Hermes Flower and
Gift shop, 1709 North Snelling
avenue, where corsages will cost
$1.50.
Dalton Reports Traysliding, Hockey .. .
On 73rd Annual
AHA Assembly
• • . Relays, Log Sawing
Sports Scheduled Saturday At Como
This account was written by Roy
C. Dalton, associate professor of
history, who attended the annual
meeting of the AHA. A further
report will be made by him to the
history and political science group
at Bethel at a meeting tentatively
scheduled for Feb. 12—ed.
More than 2000 historians from
throughout the United States at-tended
the three-day convention of
the American Historical Associa-tion,
held at the Mayflower hotel
in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 28-
30. By charter definition the AHA
is a body "for the promotion of
historical studies, the collection
and preservation of historical
manuscripts, and for kindred pur-poses
in the interests of American
history and of history in America."
At the annual meeting, of which
this was the seventy-third, numer-ous
papers were read and discuss-ed
at morning, luncheon, after-noon,
and dinner sessions. As a
number of papers are being read
and discussed in simultaneous ses-sions
it is impossible for any one
delegate to attend more than a
small percentage of the sessions,
generally chosen according to his
own interests and field of special-ization.
Two of the papers were particu-larly
suggestive for the history
and political science faculty and
students of Bethel college. At a
joint session with The Conference
on Slavic and East European His-tory,
John M. Thompson, of the
Social Science research council,
stressed the need for improved
teaching of Russian history and
understanding of the entire non-
Dalton
(continued on p. 3)
by Pam Everburg
Only two more days until Sat-urday
and I can hardly wait! You
too ? Why the puzzled look on a
few faces ? You don't know what's
going on?
Here's the scoop. At 9 o'clock
sharp be out in the center of cam-pus
for a dog sled race. Where
did we get the dogs, you're won-dering?
Well, we . . . Maybe I
should make you wait and see,
but be there or you'll hate your-self.
Especially when all the
screaming will wake you up any-way.
From the dog sled race we'll
pile into cars or go by ankle ex-press
to Como Lake for the skat-ing
competition. Besides the speed
races and the relay races there
will be figure skating and even
more.
Alt 10:30 we'll migrate to Como
Hill for Bethel's favorite sport-traysliding!
Girls, I feel compelled
to warn you that if you don't
want to disappoint that he-man
of yours, you better be sure to be
there. He is going to have a
chance to show off his strength
in a log sawing contest.
A quick warm lunch back at
school is the next thing on the
agenda. 'Phis is to thaw out and
give added strength for the big
afternoon of hockey. Four teams
made up of members from the
four classes will compete. Two
judges will make things fair and
exciting, One will be Dick Westby,
a seminary student and an excel-lent
skater with a background in
hockey. (His two brothers are
presently playing hockey for the
U.S. Nationals against the Rus-sians.)
Our other referee is no
stranger to hockey either. How-ever,
it has been nearly 40 years
since he has had on a pair of
skates. This is professor Swan
Engwall. But he admits that he
can be easily swayed by the emo-tions
of the players.
The surprise event of the day
will be a game in which a Bethel
"all star" team will play against
a St. Paul team.
Remember—all the competition
is on a class basis. Come and sup-port
yours and be sure to enter
the events you like best.
A trophy will be awarded the
winning class at the Saturday
night variety show.
Two Warren Miller ski movies
will be shown.
"Moonlight in Vermont," "Suzy
Snowflake," "Frosty the Snow-man,"
and "It's a Marshmallow
World" will be sung by a trio—
Bev Harrison, Rene Leafblad, and
June McGillivray. The Lee Lewis
Octette will also sing.
Admission will be by banquet
ticket or 50 cents per person.
JP.ININIKM04.#####1.4,41,
Thursday
8 p.m.—basketball game
half-time coronation
10 p.m.—mixer at Edgren
Friday
8 p.m.—formal banquet
Saturday
9 a.m.—dog sled race
class competition at
Como
1:30 p.m.—hockey
p.m.—Sno Daze variety
NINP41.04KINIKININIKO.MIN
LITTLE MAN ON6 CAMPUS
111 CAN'T SIGN YOUR PETITION TO DROP MY CA.P65—I NEED
YOUR "F" TO EQUALIZE MY GRADE DI6TRIE3LITION,II
the CLARION
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PRESS
CAROL CHRISTENSEN, editor
BOB JOHNSON, editor
Departmental editors: Alice
Huffman, Lois Bradshaw,
Pam Everburg, Charlie El-ven.
MAUREEN BRONSTEIN,
business manager
ROY DALTON, Ph.D., adviser
Page 2 the CLARION Thursday, January 15, 1959
Call To Contemplation
Silence Held To Be Key
by Marvin W. Anderson
Seminary Senior
In the center of sound, silence. In the babble of voices, the Voice,
crying in the Wilderness ... Beyond all words, and transcending speech,
the Word of God would speak, if we shall listen.
The cryptic message of T. S. Eliot sears our conscience as we seek
for God's Word:
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world;
And the light shone in darkness and
Against the word the unstilted world still whirled
About the centre of the silent Word.
0 my people, what have I done to thee.
Where shall the word be found, where will the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence ...
He who was greatest of those born of women became a Voice, cry-ing
in the silent wilderness. This voice compels us to silence and
solitude, neglected facets of our spiritual heritage.
Silence is disturbing, for it unmasks the strangers that we are
in the world of sound. It mirrors our real selves and invades the realm
of thought. "Be still and know that I am God." No knowledge without
silence, and no God without calm. Apropos in an age of cacaphony and
speed is the still, small voice of the Word of God.
Silence brings solitude. The modern penchant for gregarity: we who
cannot sup in solitude, need the calm and assurance of the desert. "In
Eternity, you will look in vain for the crowd." Thoughts in solitude
again will gain access to the presence of God.
Contemplation of God, stemming from communion with the silent
Word, springs from a silent soul in an attitude of solitude before
Christ and the crisis of His cross.
No place of grace for those who avoid the face
No time to rejoice for those who walk among the noise
and deny the voice.
TO -61)quart Corner
Abp Common jobrt
The Rook (maleficent obsession)
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary
Supping on a bowl of puree since my lobes were blinking bleary;
As I studied, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping
'Companied by murmured yapping there outside my chamber door.
Finals though my mind enwrapping I played naughty feigning napping.
Yet continued still the tapping and increased into a rapping
So that soon the sound slammed slapping, slipping through my chamberdoor;
And I hoped some kind kidnapping would remove the slipping slapping
That disturbed my feigned sly sleeping at the desk this side the door.
Only this and nothing more.
But the noise continued stronger. I could stand it then no longer
When the rapping turned to ripping and the yapping to a roar.
I arose and in a hurry flew to pacify the flurry
And I wondered what I'd whisper when I opened wide the door —
"Now you know that I am napping so please bother me no more."
Here I opened wide the portal and performed the brief recital
That I'd muttered tersely in my mind the moment just before.
But in spite of my appealing I began to find the feeling
Of rejection soon concealing when I found myself a-reeling
To the bed upon the floor;
For the others all around us wafted worries with a snore
And they needed one more person to make up a hand of four.
Fretful fancies of the finals I attempted to ignore
As the dealer did the dealing and the winners won with squealing
As I pouted my appealing then appealed at last no more.
Round the ghastly game we gathered from that moment until four
As we played ourselves to sleeping from that moment until four
Only "Rook" and nothing more.
Quoth we later, "Nevermore."
Safety Valve:
Faculty Member Dissents
To the Editor:
It is my understanding that it
is a signal honor to be chosen
editor of the CLARION. It is
obvious that with this honor also
goes the privilege and responsi-bility
of making your paper a
worthwhile contribution to a "cam-pus
of Christian scholarship."
I fail to see such value in such
articles as the last "Square Cor-ner"
in Which an attempt is made
by a pseudo-sophisticate to expose
the entire student body to a vi-carious
experience of attending a
"rock and roll" session. If "Com-mon
John" feels the need to so
slum and waste his God-given time
on such worthless pursuits, this is
his affair, but I see no reason
for exposing all to it!
Having been graciously saved
from years wasted in this type of
life, I feel qualified to speak out
against such activities. Frankly,
to read such flippant and glib
gibberish in our paper nauseates
me. Must we be like the world in
all things ? God's Word advises to
"flee youthful lusts!"
In the name of Christian dec-ency
I pray that in the future
you may feel led to consign such
articles to their deserved place—
the trash can!
Julius Whitinger
Writer
Replies
In the "Square Corner" article
mentioned in the above letter,
criticism was leveled on the directly
observable evidence that I had
attended a "rock and roll session."
Perhaps it was because I did not
attack dancing in true crusading
fashion, exposing all its evils, that
it was thought that I approved
of the activity. This was not nec-essarily
so. Actually I had found
the scene rather amusing and
tried to convey this feeling, at the
same time trying to be reasonably
objective.
While the "Square Corner" pro-duces
- no works of literary note,
it is not designed to nauseate. The
purpose of the "Corner" for the
most part is to inform the stu-dent
body of inexpensive cultural
opportunities in the Twin City
area. KSTP-TV was one in the
series. Perhaps it was unfortunate
that the only available live tele-cast
on Friday afternoon was "HI-FIve
Time."
Let me conclude by saying that
I don't believe salvation alone, any
more than wealth or social stand-ing,
makes anyone a qualified
critic of every pothole on the
prairie.
There has to be some background
knowledge before criticism, and
in this case it would appear that
previous articles would furnish the
information.
"Common John"
Social
Situation
Appalling
Dear Editors:
I would like to state my business
as briefly, honestly, and dogmati-cally
as possible.
I am a member of the majority
group uninvited to the Sno Daze
activities. It has been suggested
by female friends of mine and
confirmed by members of the male
populus that the specific reason
for the sparse attendance to this
affair is simply that guys in gen-eral
are not interested in spend-ing
an outrageous sum (minimum
$15) on someone who is merely a
"date."
Therefore, it seems to me that
the root of the trouble originates
in the beginning of the year at
the social events transpiring be-fore
Sno Daze. It is my sincere
(and dogmatic) belief that more
events on campus ought to be par-ticularly
designated as "date af-fairs."
Perhaps we could add more
mixers and box-socials.
Each week we have what is
called Dress-Up for dinner which
is usually followed by a social or
cultural event. I believe that many,
if not all, of these events ought
to be labeled and strictly enforced
as "Dates Only!"
Perhaps at first glance this ap-pears
to be social suicide for many
girls, and yet I feel convinced that
if this idea were given time it
would be found quite profitable.
It seems very feasible to me that
a boy would be willing to take a
girl to a campus event, the total
financial burden of such an event
being no more than a quarter for
a sundae.
I believe, in short time, guys
would get adjusted to the idea and
dating would become an enjoyable
and natural experience at Bethel
(which I think we all secretly de-sire).
I could go on to elucidate my
convictions concerning a Chris-tian's
responsibility to a well-ad-justed
social life, but I will leave
that for hen-sessions in the coffee
shop.
Sincerely,
Terry Benz
rally 'round the fragment
i would like to be in a clique,
but my car isn't large enough
the remainder of nineteen hun-dred
and fifty nine will see the
average male student change his
socks three hundred and fifty
times
engineering, science, and technology
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Thursday, 15,1959
the CLARION
Page 3
Borneo Missionary
To Speak At WMF
Bethel Choir
Practises On
City Churches
Forty-two voices of the Bethel
college choir will be presenting
concerts in area churches in the
coming months.
Presently the choir, under the
direction of C. Howard Smith, is
working on selections to be used
Jan. 25 at Edgewater Baptist in
Minneapolis and Feb. 8 at Payne
Avenue Baptist in St. Paul.
These area concerts will provide
valuable experience for the group
before they take their spring tour,
said Mr. Smith. This year the choir
plans to visit the Columbia con-ference,
singing in the churches
along the west coast from Port-land,
Ore., to Vancouver, B. C.
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Some come bearded: The
bearded ones on this page really
aren't refugees from Fidel Cas-tro's
victorious 26th of July revo-lutionary
force. Actually, they are
only male Bethel college students
getting their growths in shape
for happy Sno Daze time.
Bethel Debaters
Tie For Honors
At Tournament
Bethel debaters tied with • Augu-stana
college for top honors at
the tournament Dec. 13. Fred
Borgen and Bob Hames ended
the day with four wins and no
losses. They combined with Joel
Stolte and Doug Oelke to give
Bethel a six to eight record.
Last Saturday the fourth in a
series of Twin City league tourna-ments
was held at Concordia Jun-ior
college. The league winners
will be announced at the end of
the series.
Future tournaments are sched-uled
for Jan. 17 at River Falls,
Wis., and Jan. 29-31 at Sioux
Falls, S. D.
A young people's meeting fea-turing
debaters is being planned
at the Central Baptist church in
Sioux Falls.
(continued from page 1)
Western world. Thompson suggest-ed:
That every graduate history de-partment
in the United States
offer courses in Russian history
taught by a trained specialist.
That every graduate student
majoring in modern European his-tory
be required to take some
work in the history of Russia and
Eastern Europe.
That every college history de-partment
should have one man
with sufficient training to teach
a good survey of Russian history.
That every bachelor of arts col-lege
graduate should be acquaint-ed
in some fashion with the prob-lems
and issues affecting Russian
and Soviet development.
Proper Student Training
Thompson stressed the need for
educators in the United States
to consider searchingly and in good
conscience how well they are pre-paring
their students for respon-sible
citizenship in the world of
1980. He emphasized that this
would be a world in which Russia,
China, and all of Asia and Africa
would be playing prominent roles
daily affecting the vital interests
of the United States.
To increase the number of tea-chers
qualified to impart some un-derstanding
of Russia to American
students, Thompson suggested:
Establishment of a fellowship
program for faculty members who
have not had an opportunity to
undertake specialized study of
Russia.
A determined effort by admini-strators
and history department
Rev. Lester Kim, pastor of the
Grand Avenue Christian and Mis-sionary
Alliance church in Minne-chairmen
to appoint teachers who
have a double competence — in
Russian, as well as in Western
European, American, or some other
history.
A Northwestern university his-torian,
L. S. Stavrianos, in his
paper on "World History and the
Teacher," said that the teaching
of world history today in the
United States is in a troubled
state at all levels, from the high
school to the graduate school.
Stavrianos said the basic reason
for this troubled state is the at-tempt
to teach such courses and
to write world history textbooks
by starting with Europe and add-ing
materials on Africa, South
Asia, and the Far and Middle
East whenever Europe impinged
on these regions. This procedure
has proved inadequate for two rea-sons:
The added materials have made
both the courses and the text-books
pedagogically unmanage-able.
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They have produced a "hybrid
which perhaps may be properly
defined as 'Europe and Its World
Relationships,' but which d'efin-
Hely is not world history."
What Is Our Objective?
To cope with this situation it is
necessary first to "differentiate
definitely and unequivocally be-tween
European history and world
history," Stavrianos said. If world
history is the objective, then
courses and textbooks must be
organized clearly and consistently
on a global basis.
"The second World War acceler-ated
the awakening of colonial
apolis, will be the speaker at World
Missions Fellowship on Thursday,
Jan. 22. This program, planned by
the Missions Fellowship of St.
Paul Bible college, will be held at
7 p.m. in the Bethel college chapel.
A former missionary to Indo-nesia,
Rev. Kim did pioneer work
in the jungles of Borneo. Before
he returned to this country he was
dean of a Bible school in Makas-sar
where about 90 students stud-ied.
A mixed trio will supply music
for the meeting.
peoples, with the result that Cairo,
Delhi, and Peking today are
crowding Washington, London, and
Paris in the daily headlines,"
Stavrianos declared. Epochal tech-nological
advances that have made
all neighbors have caused many to
question whether the traditional
Western Civilization course, by it-self,
is adequately preparing stu-dents
for the one world in which
they are destined to live.
It was the opinion of Stavrianos
that advanced undergraduate and
graduate courses should concen-trate
on limited phases of world
history, while freshman college
and high school courses should be
comprehensive in scope.
New Approach Outlined
William H. McNeill, of the Uni-versity
of Chicago, who appeared
on the panel with Stavrianos, said
that the question of how "our
common view of world history
should be revised cannot be an-swered
exactly until a number of
scholars have made the attempt"-
He thought that a promising ap-proach
would be to focus atten-tion
upon major centers of social
and cultural innovations in any
given epoch and study how other
societies reacted to the novelties
introduced at such centers.
A delightful experience for those
attending the convention was the
address of Walter Prescott Webb,
out-going president of the Assoc-iation.
Among the many other
humorous things he had to say in
his address, "History as a High
Adventure," Webb told how, in
looking around for something to
talk about at the annual banquet,
he had examined the published
speeches of his AHA presidential
predecessors. Judging from these,
he noted, one must conclude that
historians are "deadly serious"
and that the presidents "had much
learning, some wisdom and no fun
at all."
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About 50 students are members evening at 6:30 in the college
of the Bethel band this year. The chapel.
band is directed by Julius Whit-inger,
instructor in music and
formerly director of the U.S. Navy
band.
Larry Sewell, sophomore, was
recently elected band president.
Vice president of the organization
is Loreen Leafblad, and Janice
Danielson is secretary - treasurer.
Other members of the band council
include Jan Lindquist, Morris An-derson,
John A. Anderson, and Bob
Ricker.
This year a uniform fund has
been started and awards will be
given for two years of faithful
service in the band. These awards
will be either a band key or a band
letter.
Mr. Whitinger hopes to form an
active band and feels Bethel has
possibilities of supporting a good
college band. He also encourages
all interested students to join the
band.
Practices are held each Tuesday
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Two smiling snowomen try their
hand at a great sport, traying.
Page 4 the CLARION Thursday, January 15, 1959
Who, Why, And How?
Intramurals Evaluated
Intramural athletics have long
been accepted as an important
part of the total college program.
Students and administration rea-lize
the value of the team exper-ience.
Many students, those who
lack the time to participate and
those not sufficiently adept at
athletics for intercollegiate com-petition
never experience team
activity.
Intramural athletics provides for
these students an opportunity to
be a team member as well as giv-ing
them some physical activity
which is held to be important to
living. Physical education courses
are required for only two years at
college, and these for only two
hours weekly. Outside of this re-quired
activity large numbers of
students confine themselves ex-clusively
to other pursuits.
The importance of intramural
athletics is further demonstrated
by the fact that such a group as
North Central association takes
the intramural program into con-sideration
when determining whe-ther
or not a school deserves its
seal of approval.
In fact, the concern of the
North Central group is one rea-son
which makes the intramural
question important as Bethel col-lege
now seeks regional accredi-tation.
Are intra•urals sufficiently
prominent and successful at Bethel
college? Does the success of our
program compare with that of
other schools of our size, origin,
and environment (if such exist) ?
Are students interested in the
program?
The men's schedule provides
competition in flag football, vol-leyball,
basketball, badminton,
handball, ping pong, softball, and
tennis.
A -variety of sports as men-tioned
above would apparently in-terest
nearly all students. Such
a comprehensive and interesting
program seems to be just the
component to combine with our
academic, religious, and social
phases to provide a balanced col-lege
life. But the "well-rounded,"
average Bethel student doesn't
appear to be very attracted.
For example, most men's team
captains consider themselves for-tunate
to have six of their team
members present to play volley-ball,
yet each of the eight men's
teams have nearly 40 members.
The men's schedule is posted on
the fieldhouse bulletin board, an-nouncements
are made in physical
education classes, and team cap-tains
leave notes in mail boxes,
but very little response occurs.
The same handful of men are pre-sent.
This same handful of men
will be present for the spring
sports also.
A similar situation exists in the
women's program, but it might be
partly explained by the fact that
Mrs. Lundin wasn't appointed sup-ervisor
of women's activities un-
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til the middle of November. To
some degree it is imaginable that
female students had developed a
schedule for studies, social life,
etc., which did not leave time for
an intramural athletic program
tardily introduced after their 24
hours per day had been filled, but
it would seem likely that more
than the handful would consider
it important to take time out and
be physically and competitively
stimulated through athletics.
The goal of the intramural pro-gram
is, of course, the physical
fitness of every student, which will
not be achieved without 100 per
cent participation. This will prob-ably
never be realized, but pro-gress
would certainly be encourag-ing.
Perhaps Bethel students are too
busy elsewhere. Perhaps physical
activity is not important enough
to the "well-rounded" Bethel stu-dent
for him to allow it to take
precedent over other activities,
without, as well as within, the
curriculum. Perhaps activities open
to Bethel Students are too num-erous.
At any rate, the number of
students participating at present
in intramural athletics hardly jus-tifies
reserving two evenings a
week on the official school calen-dar.
C. W.
by Don Westerhoff
Tuesday Bethel handed the
Northwestern Eagles a ten point
defeat, leaving the Royals unde-feated
in the conference and in
the number one slot.
Although Bethel led the Eagles
all the way it was still a close
game with some exciting mom-ents.
At half-time the Royals led
2925; the game ended 6858.
Keith King and Wayne Kindall
dominated the rebounding as well
as the scoring column, getting 18
and 17 rebounds respectively. John
Peterson came off the bench in
Three Loop
Foes Invade
Bethel Soon
by Dave Hagfeldt
Bethel, after sweeping its first
three conference tilts, faces four
conference games in a row.
The Pillsbury cellar dwellers,
who were outscored 91 - 50 by
Northwestern, Minn., will face the
league leading Royals here tonight.
,Coach Healy commented that
the next two games with North-land
and Milton should be a fair
indication of the outcome of the
league race. At Northland the
Royals will face several returning
lettermen on a team that has won
two of its first four non-conference
games. Bethel and Northland split
two games last year, each winning
on its home court. Milton Who
edged out the Royals for the title
last year will invade Bethel Jan.
23 in what should prove to be a
thriller.
Northwestern, Wis., will bring
two men who are in the top 10
scorers in the conference. Recently
improved scoring of Wayne Kin-dall,
who is third in the scoring
race with 23 points per game, and
the steady rebounding of Truman
Turnquist, who is averaging 21
points, may be deciding factors in
these contests.
the second half to show his ability
by getting seven rebounds and
making seven straight free
throws. He also had a _hand in
breaking up several Eagle plays.
iSpectatork= at the game were en-tertained
at half-time by Sergeant
Herb Schlossberg and his control
drill team and a musical drama
put on by some Northwestern rep-resentatives.
Over Christmas vacation the
Royal five defeated two confer-ence
foes, Lakeland and Milwaukee
Tech, thus giving them three tri-umphs
in the Badger-Gopher con-ference.
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All Day Sat.- Hudson Here
Snow Events With Hockey
by C. N. Elven
IT IS QUESTIONABLE YOU KNOW. Bethel's second to one cam-pus,
Como park, will be cluttered (it's advertised that way) with our
lovely little ( ?) coeds swirling about with Joe hero beside them.
AND THEN THERE'S THIS THREATENING PROBLEM. Juniors
have a reputation at stake, that
being their dominance in sports
events and having claim to the
Sno trophy since it was inaugur-ated
two years ago. Can they do
it again?
IT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR.
Now take traying for instance.
The girls are credited with the
longest trip in Como park—down
hill. Priscilla Sension won this
event last year and look at the
prize she got—Don.
We could be without IT you
know, we have been for the past
two years.
Yo-Ho-Ho; 16 Men On • • •
Fanatics, they're all around us. Did you know that there are
people who attend our institution that enjoy being struck by a mis-guided
missile traveling at 80 to 100 miles an hour. This is fact.
I sat down with a group of these fanatics to discuss and learn
a few rudiments of the now royal sport of hockey. After discovering
the difference between a goalie and a wingman, I tried to probe into
the future of hockey here.
As I understand it, Bethel college now has approximately 17
fanatics-116 hockey players and Hudson, who has been on skates only
twice—comprising the roster for the hockey team.
Seminarian Dick Westby has consented to be a player coach. He
is trying to work his boys into some semblance of organization.
Comprising the first two lines are Westby, Gordh, L. Nelson, Mil-bery,
A. Penner, and Benent while McNaughton, M. Penner, Martinson,
and Moberg cinch the defensive positions. Dick Resch is goalie.
In the past few years various students have attempted to organize
a hockey team without too much success. But this year could be dif-ferent.
This is made significant by the number of players out thus
far and that we have a coach at our disposal.
Finances are a basic problem. At present our Athletic Department
has been most generous in their encouragement verbally, but the pur-chasing
power of words is small. The department has let the men use
jerseys and a few pads for which the stick men are grateful.
In order for the boys to be set up in league style, there are several
things which are necessary. Here are a few: wooden sticks, $3, or
fiberglass sticks, $4.75; goalie pads, $40; gloves, $16; skates, $50 - $60;
pads, $11; jerseys, $6; breezers, $12; to say nothing of boards which
run as high as $1,200. And our Athletic Department doesn't at present
have this kind of money. Perhaps if you know of a rich, ah—you know
what I mean.
The Needle
Bethel has finally come up with some scoring punch with Kindall,
Turnquist, and King all averaging around '20 points in the last three
games . . . Sport cars have finally arrived: the little red Porsche belong-ing
to Roger Purcell, the blue (gray) Ford to Art Erickson ...No won-der
the Russians are beating the U.S. Nationals—the Russian hockey
team eats steak for breakfast and drinks three quarts of milk a day
... Wally Pete says the faculty doesn't have a chance at the gym—a
girls' basketball practice is upsetting his badminton schedule ... A
new Miss Supertest is being built for another crack at the World
Hydro championship—the Harmsworth Trophy.
Third Badger-Gopher Win;
Traditional Rivals Beaten